Monday, August 20, 2012

An unemployed Italian man committed suicide by dousing himself with a flammable liquid and setting himself on fire. His suicide note said that he had become despondent after he lost his job and failed to find another one.

In other news, a gunman in Yemen celebrated Eid al-Fitr by opening fire inside a mosque, killing nine worshippers and wounding ten others.

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Seems someone left a strip of uncooked bacon at a Staten Island Ramadan site. The Muzzies are freaking out, some of the anti-Jihad sites(especially a well known one) are upset at the bacon and is distributor as well.

Personally I find the holier than thou attitude of some of the doyens of the anti-Islamic movement to be quite revolting. Instead using this incident to illustrate how thin skinned and quick to anger Muslims are. That they are a indigestable and utterly hostile minority that has no business here in the U.S.

I had a long post written out with regards to the Italian man, which adds to the growing collectionOf Europeans committing suicide. But to be honest I've dragged my moof down considerably. All i will say is that the educational system lied to us, utterly and completely. Fed us a pipe dream.

It was clear that this man was just an ordinary cog in the machine. He was a financial slave to the system. No doubt he had a mortgage, bills, kids to feed taxes to pay. But when the systems foundations begin to shake even a persons worth as a mere cog is removed, that person may feel completely stripped of everything they thought they knew. In a sense your own entrapment can become the one thing that actually keeps you going.

Certainty and routine. Perhaps that ever elusive goal of attempting to free yourself from the machine is indeed a salvation to the mind. As seen those very few that achieve complete financial independence suchAs lotto winners and celebs, often find their mental state deteriorate far more rapidly than the stresses of bills and financial pressures.

Perhaps Its the struggle and the constant striving that drives us? Similarly the millions that have died in the goal of freedom, yet those that have freedom seem to either ignore it's value or allow It to simply slip away. I thought the quote from watchmen was quite apt dan: "what happened to theAmerican dream?" "it came true."

Ok so much for long post not even sure what I'm getting at here but hey, there may be something of worth to glean from it

The Europeans have had it very easy for 60 years now. The pre-WWII people that had it hard or their children are either dead or old.

This later generation has zero experience with hard times or hard people. They are like human Dodo's, they grew up in a environment where there no predators or tyrants to make them tough and think for themselves.

Now their social safety net is crumbling and hard times are coming upon some of them. Instead of girding their loins and kicking out the hordes of foreign parasites living off their system, they are rolling over like a croaked gold fish.

It will change, but it's too soon now. They still think they deserve all sorts of goodies for nothing. Let them suffer for a few years and weed out the weak and stupid among them.

The Norwegian news portal VG Nett is reporting that a Muslim terrorist group, Ansar al-Sunna’, is threatening that if a section of the nation's capitol isn't transformed into a sharia-complaint Muslim nation,